Mother’s love equates Purest love
Nurturing often complicates love
Lord Rama’s step mother Kaikeyi
blinded in love for Bharat
had heir to throne Rama banished
for fourteen years with wife Seeta
so Bharat rules golden kingdom
Kaikeyi’s boon for Son Bharat
killed husband King Dasarath
in grief at exiled Rama’s seperation
Kaikeyi widowed, filled with repentance
Bharat guarded throne with loyal reverence
Seeta, Rama, Laxman warred Ravana’s interference
A colossal loss, tears, rebellion, lessons in penance
Mothers seek and pray for progeny
selfish greed disrupts peace harmony
unless all rise above I-Me-Myself-Mine cacophony
©®Rupa Rao
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